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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: "Wan, Kaike" <kaike.wan@intel.com>
Cc: "Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>,
	"dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	"hal.rosenstock@gmail.com" <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
	"yun.wang@profitbricks.com" <yun.wang@profitbricks.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/sa: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:00:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151027200012.GA7403@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F128C9216C9B84BB6ED23EF16290AFB18571E3F@CRSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:56:50PM +0000, Wan, Kaike wrote:
 
> > I do wonder if it is a good idea to call ib_nl_send_msg with a spinlock held
> > though.. Would be nice to see that go away.
> 
> We have to hold the lock to protect against a race condition that a
> quick response will try to free the request from the
> ib_nl_request_list before we even put it on the list.

Put is on the list first? Use a kref? Doesn't look like a big deal to
clean this up.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 15:47 Saurabh Sengar
2015-10-27 18:12 ` ira.weiny
2015-10-27 18:16   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-10-27 18:20     ` ira.weiny
2015-10-27 18:56     ` Wan, Kaike
2015-10-27 20:00       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2015-10-28  4:30         ` Weiny, Ira
2015-11-13  7:42           ` Saurabh Sengar
2015-11-13 10:47             ` Wan, Kaike
2015-11-13 12:37               ` Saurabh Sengar

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